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How to make a navajo rug dress.
Tempe az frequent commenter kathleen bernett asked me for a better picture of what really does look like a pink rug in this picture click to enlarge it from sunday s post about the heard museum indian fair and market.
The boarders are in diamond twill tapestry and the center will be in diagonal twill.
I was inspired to make my first biil a traditional navajo dress when i seen a picture of chief manuleitos wife juanita wearing a biil she was wearing a biil with one woven off the shoulder.
Showing the start of a navajo woven dress from start to the completion of one border over two weeks.
Typical navajo textiles have strong geometric patterns.
Toward the end of the 19th century weavers began to make rugs for tourism and export.
Navajo textiles were originally utilitarian blankets for use as cloaks dresses saddle blankets and similar purposes.
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With the greater arrival of white settlers first after the opening of the santa fe trail in 1822 and then the arrival of the railroad which brought in cheaper synthetic dyes in the 1880 s the designs became decidedly more colorful.
The best rugs are made with wool from churro sheep a breed raised by the navajo she explained.
As you can see in the picture above the young lady who is seated behind master weaver jane hyden is wearing what is.
But the navajo didn t always make rugs traditionally they produced blankets for wearing.
It s great wool that lasts a long time and is.
It s a small breed of sheep with a double coat.
The patterns for these dresses are created by me i make these dresses for all occasions such as.
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This navajo rug known as a two grey hills design and dating from around 1960 is one of a collection of nine rugs assembled in california between 1956 and 1967.
The navajo people are one of the two largest federally recognized tribes in the us.
It s not a rug.
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It was actually a lucky coincidence with competition and trends shaping the market that drove the navajo into the business of home decoration.